This is a template that configures four tracks for a rock quartet. General MIDI patches are used. The Pan parameter is used to create a traditional seating arrangement.

USING KEY+ OFFSETS

Some instruments are traditionally notated transposed to a different key and/or octave than they sound. This effect can be accomplished in SONAR through use of the Track view Key+ parameter. For example, the tenor saxophone Key+ should be set to -14 to

With the Key+ parameter set, the notes you see in all the SONAR views and the notes you play will be in the transposed key. The notes you hear during playback and via MIDI Thru will be in the normal, untransposed key. This is natural if you are enterin

NOT USING THE KEY+ OFFSETS

If you prefer to develop the instrument's part in the normal, untransposed key, you may wish to set the Key+ to 0. If you do this, then the notation in the Staff view will not be transposed in the traditional way. (Hint: If you need to change several t

At some later point, if you wish to see the part notated properly, you can always restore the original Key+ offset and transpose the part using Edit | Transpose. To restore the original Key+ offsets for this template, refer to the chart below for the Tr